If your outputs look similar, you have successfully replaced your small hard disks with bigger ones.

Now that we have more disk space (2* 23.29GB + 2 * 56.71GB = 160GB) we could enlarge our logical volumes. Until now you know how to enlarge ext3 and reiserfs partitions, so let's enlarge our backup logical volume now which uses xfs:

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I have about 2 years of experience using RAID and LVM, and I must say - in all of the literature and documentation I've ever encountered, _none_ of it ever came close to making things so simple and clear as you have just done. You've articulated the ideas of logical volumes, volume groups, and physical volumes well, and have provided concise examples.